WEBVTT GMOSER BEGAN CROSS EXAMINING THEDEFENSE'S FIRST WITNESS.TEARS AND EMOTION INSIDE ABUTLER COUNTY COURTROOM ASPROSECUTOR MIKE GMOSER GRILLEDTHE DEFENSE'S FIRST WITNESS.>> YOU BROUGHT HIM BACK AND HEHAD A GAS CAN AND A CROW BAR >> KNOW HE DID NOT.>> AND THIS HOUSE BURNS DOWN.YOU KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO BEINVOLVED UP TO YOUR EYEBALLS,YOU KNOW THAT AND YOU KNOW ITUNTIL THIS VERY DAY DON'T YOU.>> SIR, I KNOW YOU ARE LYING.KARIN: ON THE STAND KIM BROOKSEXPRESSED FRUSTRATION WITHPROSECUTORS AND THE LEADINVESTIGATOR SAYING THEY'RETRYING TO MAKE HER LIE.>> OK, HE DIDN'T HAVE NOTHINGWHEN HE CAME BACK TO THE CAR.EVERYBODY WANTS TO SAY THAT HEBROUGHT A BAG OK.HE DIDN'T.I TOLD YOU ALL TIME AND TIMEAGAIN, AND YOU KNOW IT.KARIN: BROOKS IS DEFENDANT BILLYTUCKER'S EX-GIRLFRIEND.SHE WAS WITH TUCKER AND COURTNEYBASINGER ON THE MORNING OF THEFIRE THAT KILLED HAMILTONFIREFIGHTER PATRICK WOLTERMAN.HER TESTIMONY CONTRADICTSBASINGER'S.BASINGER SAYS TUCKER HAD HERPULL HER CAR OVER IN THE AREA OFPATER AVENUE ON DECEMBER 28.HE HOPPED OUT AND WHEN HERETURNED, HE WAS HOLDING A GASCAN.>> DID HE HAVE ANYTHING IN HISHAND?>> NO.>> DID HE HAVE A GAS CAN?>> NO.KARIN: BROOKS SAYS TUCKER HADTHEM PULL OVER ON GRANDBOULIVARD SO HE COULD GET PAINPILLS NOT TO SET A FIRE.>> YOU SLEPT TOGETHER IN THESAME BED.>> YES.>> DID HE SHOWER BEFORE HE WENTTO BED?>> NO.DID HE SMELL OF ANYTHING?DID HE SMELL OF SMOKE?DID HE SMELL OF GAS?>> NO.KARIN: NO COURT TOMORROW ORFRIDAY.THE TRIAL WILL RESUME MONDAY AND

Kim Brooks was the first to be called for the defense. She was defendant Billy Tucker's girlfriend at the time of the fire and was with him and a woman named Courtney Basinger on the morning of the Dec. 28, 2015.

The two women said they went together to Richmond, Kentucky, to pick up Tucker and bring him to Hamilton. Basinger was the driver.

"Where did Bill sit in the car," defense attorney Tamara Sack asked."In the front passenger seat because he had longer legs than me," Brooks said.

That statement contradicts what Basinger previously testified to. She said Tucker sat in the back seat with her children.

Basinger also testified that Tucker had her pull her car over on Grand Boulevard early in the morning on Dec. 28. She said he hopped out, and when he returned, he was holding a gas can.

Brooks said Tucker did not have anything in his hand when he returned. She said Tucker had them pull over so he could get pain pills at a nearby house. She said she did not believe he set the fire.

"You slept together in the same bed?" Sack asked."Yes, ma'am," Brooks answered.

Brooks said Tucker didn't shower that night and he didn't smell like smoke or gasoline.

During cross examination, Brooks and Butler County prosecutor Mike Gmoser began yelling at each other.

"You brought him back, and he had a gas can and a crowbar," Gmoser said."No he did not," Brooks answered.

Brooks told Gmoser he was lying. She expressed frustration with prosecutors and the lead investigator saying they're trying to make her lie.

"He didn't have nothing when he came back to the car. Everybody wants to say that he brought a bag. He didn't. I told you all time and time again and you know it," Brooks said.

The trial will resume on Monday. Sack said during opening statements that jurors will hear from Tucker.

It's unclear if Lester Parker--the co-defendant and owner of the home that burned--- will take the stand.

Prosecutors are trying to prove Parker came up with the idea to burn down his house for insurance money and Tucker carried out the crime in exchange for pain pills.